JQuery :: Adding Additional Code To JTemplate?

I have following function to apply the jTemplate, I was wondering if there a way to append an additional HTML around this code

function Success(data, status) {
$('#placeholder').setTemplateURL('JTemplates/Template.htm');
$('#placeholder').processTemplate(data.d);
}

like adding a table, ul and ui tag etc, I tried append without any success:

function Success(data, status) {
$('#placeholder').append('<table><tr><ul><ui>');
$('#placeholder').setTemplateURL('JTemplates/Template.htm');
$('#placeholder').processTemplate(data.d);
}